Color Management Part 7: Introducing Gamma
For many After Effects users, gamma is something you adjust in the levels and exposure plugins, but it goes...
REACTION!!! Re-write After Effects from scratch???
Should Adobe re-write After Effects from the ground up? Earlier this week, that’s what Wren from Corridor Digital tweeted....
Color Management Part 6: Understanding the CIE 1931 diagram
In Part 5 we started to look at the CIE 1931 Chromaticity diagram, the distinctive rainbow tongue that pops...
Color Management Part 5: Introducing CIE 1931
Anyone who’s ever looked up color management – especially using Google – will have seen the funny, multi-colored tongue...
Color Management Part 4: Maxwell’s Spinning Discs
Have you ever stopped to think about where RGB values came from? We all use digital color pickers every...
Color Management Part 3: It’s all in the brain
In order to manage colors in film and television production, we need a way to measure them. Unfortunately, measuring...
Color Management Part 1: The Honeymoon is over.
Welcome to the first part of my new series on color management. Although it’s exciting to launch a new...
Quality: 14 tips to improve your After Effects projects
Quality is a tricky subject, covering everything from technical specifications, client expectations and budgetary restrictions, through to subjective opinions...
Creating a Background in Motion
Last month I taught several sessions at the Final Cut Pro Global Summit. In between my sessions, I checked...
AE 2022: Multi-Frame Rendering has arrived!
Last week Adobe released After Effects 2022, which includes a number of new features that massively improve performance. I’m...
